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ASX tees up $65m Yieldbroker deal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... Zealand debt securities and interest rate derivatives, including Australian government and semi-government bonds, treasury notes, corporate bonds, floating rate notes, New Zealand government bonds, interest rate swaps, overnight index swaps, forward ...

Expand PLS to all age pensioners: TAI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... the PLS equivalent to an equity release scheme. "We propose a simple extension of the PLS: to open it to all retirees," notes the research paper. "This would allow any retiree with sufficient [home] equity to secure fortnightly loans equivalent to the ...

Challenger adds firepower to annuities business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... placement and a $30 million retail share placement. The company also has plans to raise a further $250 million via a convertible notes issue. The tier 1 hybrid issue is the first of its kind for Challenger and, if successful, would provide the company ...

Challenger to raise $530m to fund further annuities growth

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... combination of a $250 million institutional share placement, a $30 million retail share placement and a $250 million convertible notes issue. In an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) the company said the capital initiatives will ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... regarding this issue and it was actually ASIC who made public the details about the compensation scheme. "Macquarie Group notes today's media release from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to Macquarie Private Wealth ...

Advisers eye opportunity in identity theft protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... victims of these sorts of attacks," he told Financial Standard. JBS Financial Strategists director Jenny Brown agrees and notes that "the role of a financial adviser is to assist a client achieve what they want out of life by providing recommendations ...

FSI questions viability of franking credits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... proportion of Australian equities has been, and is expected to be, held in superannuation accounts in retirement. The Inquiry notes that, due to refundable imputation credits and tax-free superannuation in retirement, a growing proportion of company ...

Confidence key to financial future: Murray

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... sector is competitive, albeit concentrated. It concedes the big four banks have funding advantages because of their size, and notes some submissions to the review argued they also benefit from the perception that they are "too big to fail". "It is not ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... phase when confidence will have to be sustained in light of some new realities in the world. As Professor Jennifer Hill 1 notes in her 2012 review of Australia's experience during the financial crisis: The onset of the financial crisis in 2007 emphasized ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at A£375 billion." This was all the BOE's news release contained - and a "Notes to Editors" -- after the conclusion of its 10 July MPC meeting and was not surprising as the Bank does not normally publish ...